Heini Murer#
| Membership Number: | 1794 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uzh.ch/about/management/unileitung/mnw_en.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - 2010 Vice-President (‘Provost’) for Medicine and the Sciences of the University of Zurich
- 1997 - 2005 Chairman of Dept., Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich
- 3-10/1988 Sabbatical, National Institute of Health (NIH; USA)
- 1980 - present Professor (Physiology), University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1979 - 1980 Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 1979 - 1980 Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 1972 - 1975 Research Associate,ETH Zürich, Switzerland, (Biochemistry)
- 1978 Habilitation, University of Frankfurt, Germany (Physiological Chemistry)
- 1969 - 1971 Ph.D. Student(Biochemistry)University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 1971 Doctoral exam (Ph.D)
Fields of Scholarship
- Phosphate metabolism
- General cell physiology
- Structure/function relationship in membrane transport
- Renal physiology
- Membrane transport
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Cloëtta Prize
- 1991 Homer Smith Award
- 1994 Otto Nägeli Prize
- 1994 Adolf Fick Prize
- 1995 Peter F. Curran Memorial Lectureship (Yale University)
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2000 Carl. W. Gottschalk Dist. Lecture (Am. Phys. Soc.)
- 2000 Robert Berliner Lectureship (Yale University)
- 2000 Honorary Member American Physiological Society
- 2000 Member of the German Academy of Science Research Leopoldina
- 2001 Robert Pitts Memorial Lectureship (IUPS)
- 2006 Donald W. Seldin Award (National Kidney Foundation; USA)
- 2006 Franz Volhard Medal (German Society of Nephrology)
- 2008 Single Member (Honorary) of the Swiss Academy for Medicine
- 2009 Richard Award (ISN)
- 2009 Borrelli Medal (Italy)
